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AI Safety Expert - Red Team

Job in Huntington Beach, Orange County, California, 92605, USA
Listing for: Mercor
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-09-30
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    AI Evaluation, Cybersecurity
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 17 - 25 USD Hourly USD 17.00 25.00 HOUR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark
, General Catalyst
, Peter Thiel
, Adam D'Angelo
, Larry Summers
, and Jack Dorsey
.

Position: AI Safety Experts — English & Malay
Type:
Contract
Compensation: $17–$25/hour
Location:
Remote

Role Responsibilities
  • Red team conversational AI models and agents. Focus on jailbreaks, prompt injections, misuse cases, and bias exploitation.
  • Generate high-quality human data. Annotate failures, classify vulnerabilities, and flag systemic risks.
  • Apply structure by following taxonomies, benchmarks, and playbooks to maintain testing consistency.
  • Document reproducibly. Produce reports, datasets, and attack cases that customers can act on.
  • Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance
    .
Qualifications Must-Have
  • Fluent in English and Malay
    .
  • Prior red teaming experience in AI adversarial work
    , cybersecurity
    , or socio-technical probing.
  • Strong communication skills to explain risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Preferred
  • Experience in Adversarial ML
    : jailbreak datasets, prompt injection, RLHF/DPO attacks, model extraction.
  • Background in Cybersecurity
    : penetration testing, exploit development, reverse engineering.
  • Knowledge in socio-technical risk: harassment/disinfo probing, abuse analysis, conversational AI testing.
  • Creative probing skills: psychology, acting, writing for unconventional adversarial thinking.
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